Word: sickness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seems that everyone is sick these days. I know I am, with something that feels like a combination of Beri-beri and double pneumonia. Which is why I haven't been to any of the exhibits I'm talking about this week. Some of the names and titles sound interesting though, and are probably worth a visit...
Naturally, I've been to lots of parties where I've met all the other 1639 stupid and boring freshmen. Not only that, but I hate milk and cookies. And I get sick on beer. (This has somewhat constrained my social life here...
...many kooks, and the lack of any final answer, may come down to a dilemma inherent in freedom. The Bill of Rights and the U.S. promise of "liberty for all," habeas corpus and the presumption of innocence until proven guilty, all mean freedom for the sick as well as the hale, until a criminal fantasy is acted upon or a mental illness unmistakably manifest...
...Committee Chairman Hubert Humphrey, onetime (1945-48) mayor of Minneapolis, shouted at Treasury Secretary William Simon, a witness: "You can't stand there day after day and say that all they [New York] can do is go bankrupt. I'm an internationalist, but I'm damn sick and tired of thinking you can save everybody else in the world but the 8 million people in New York City...
...more on his mind. He has been diagnosed as a schizophrenic. Eden Express is his attempt to describe the slippage in and out of madness, to distinguish between the chaos in his head and the confusion of the world and, finally, to achieve a balance between romantic myths about sick minds and the cold evidence that his own disorder is the product of abnormal body chemistry. The result is not one of those bonkers-and-back melodramas. The young author does come to terms with his condition, but his book is written out of the reserve of lost innocence...